Show MUST WORK OR STARVE Government Will Not Furnish Food for Ute Indians of Cheyenne River Agency Washington As a result of tho conference at the White House between be-tween tho president Secretary Garfield Gar-field of the Interior Assistant Secretary Secre-tary Oliver of the war department and CommrBsloner of Indian Agencies Leupp regarding tho renegade Ute Indians In-dians on tho Cheyenne River reservation reserva-tion in North Dakota a decision was reached to continue tho policy of furnishing fur-nishing the Indians with work and incase In-case of their failure to take advantage of tho opportunity to leave them to their own resources Troops will be kept l there for police protection Tho government says Utes may have work If thoy desire it but that If they make no effort in their own behalf the government will not assist them The Indians have been paid the annual allowance of 18 per I capita from their own fund and it is understood that this is practically exhausted ex-hausted These Indians are tho same band who havo been making trouble for the whites for the past forty or fifty years |